ملت

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English malt.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɒlt/ (i.e., as in English)

Noun

مَلْت (maltm

  1. (nonstandard) malt
Usage notes

The most usual way to refer to malt is by referring to the superordinate concept شَعِير (šaʕīr, barley).

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

ملت (form I)

  1. مِلْتُ (miltu) /mil.tu/: first-person singular past active/passive of مَالَ (māla)
  2. مِلْتَ (milta) /mil.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active/passive of مَالَ (māla)
  3. مِلْتِ (milti) /mil.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active/passive of مَالَ (māla)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).

Noun

ملت (millet)

  1. nation, people
  2. religious community

Derived terms

Descendants

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).

Noun

ملت (millátm

  1. nation

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? millat
Dari reading? millat
Iranian reading? mellat
Tajik reading? millat

Noun

Dari ملت
Iranian Persian
Tajik миллат

مِلَّت (mellat) (plural ملل (melal) or ملت‌ها (mellat-hâ))

  1. nation, people
  2. (archaic) religious community
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 3504:
      که از آن سو جمله‌‌ی ملت یکی ست
      صد هزاران سال و یک ساعت یکی ست
      ki az ân su jumla-i-millat yaki-st
      sad hazaran sâl u yak sâ'at yaki-st
      For beyond (the realm of contraries) all religion is one:
      hundreds of thousands of years are the same as a single hour.

Descendants